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Ok, this isn’t The Hubs, it’s just me. I’m sure you are disappointed and you were waiting for the next farm report, but we have been so busy, he hasn’t really had time to sit here long enough to do a blog post.

So, I thought I would just share some fun pictures of the compound, and give you a hint of something exciting to come, that we have been working on.

First, we have had over 50 baby chicks born this month, and we still have another incubator full waiting to hatch.

Chickies

Chicks

Here they are in their little home.

Chickies

And here is one of my favorites, a little Bannie chick. She is the tiniest thing ever.

The tiniest of the tiniest chickie

There’s been lots of playing around the chicken yard.

The Chicken Yard

Knucklehead plays with Amanda II quite a bit. Don’t ask what happened to Amanda the original. You could ask the neighbor’s dog though.

Amanda II and Knucklehead

Knucklehead and Chicken Wing wished every one a happy Easter.

Knucklehead and Chicken Wing

I tried to get Tori and Knucklehead to pose with Chicken Wing, but neither were excited about it. It’s still a good picture though.

Tori, Knucklehead, and Chicken Wing

And you know what has to be done when you have chickens around, the coop has to be cleaned out, which JT and The Hubs took care of.

Coop Cleaning

The Hubs has done a lot of planting.

Planting

We ride around on the mule checking out our animals and gardens and almost run into fence posts just so I can get a selfie of us. LOL

Me and The Hubs

Knucklehead plays a lot of basketball.

Knucklehead plays basketball

When he gets tired of that, he jumps on his pogo stick.

Knucklehead jumping on a Pogo Stick

And for real fun, he rides his motorcycle.

Knucklehead rides his motorcycle

The first clean up of the year, Knucklehead and I picked up about three loads of sticks just like this.

Picking Up Sticks

As a family, we took time to go for ice cream!

Ice Cream Parlor

One of the best things to happen this month, was my great-nephew Skylar got to come for a visit, and he actually opened up his Christmas presents on Easter.

Skylar opens Christmas Gifts

He had a lot of fun playing with chickies and looking at the hogs, and I took this shot of him with his Dad, Jonathan. Two peas in a pod.

Skylar and Jonathan

He loves to be outside. And if you notice the ring around his mouth, he likes Hershey Kisses too!

Skylar on the swing

He likes to pose for pictures too! Isn’t he handsome?

Skylar

His favorite inside activity is playing with trains. JT helped him get his train track set up.

JT and Skylar

Speaking of nephews, my nephew Ben and his wife, Esbeida are expecting a baby boy, Benaiah, any day now! We are so excited for baby Benaiah to make his entrance into the world. Ben and Esbeida got this picture made and I just love it!

Ben and Esbeida Higginbotham

We went to Esbeida’s baby shower and I have to say she racked up the gifts. I think it will be a while before Benaiah needs anything.

Esbeida at baby shower

After the last storm, we had a beautiful rainbow!

Compound Rainbow

Oh, and my sunflowers are coming up!

Here come the Sunflowers

The newest editions to the compound are Billy and Nanny, and we are in love with them already.

Billy and Nanny

And last but not least, a little tease of something to come. We spent a whole day filming “Around The Compound” with gopro cameras and drones and I plan to make a video soon. Here is a still shot from one of the drone flights.

Planting – the making of a video

How cool is that?!?!?!

The next Around the Compound report will be from The Hubs. See you soon!

I can’t believe it’s been so long since I did a post! I’ll tell you, life has happened! My son has been home visiting since January as he is getting ready to join the Army and will be leaving for boot camp soon and then who knows how long it will be until I see him. So, therefore, I have been enjoying every possible minute. We have been jumping through hoops getting him ready and paperwork filled out. One of the things we had to do was get his braces off, and I am happy to report, no more brace face for Justin! Isn’t he handsome?

The Hubs is back working in the same state, so he is now home on weekends and that has been wonderful. This past weekend, his parents came for a visit and brought his daughter and her little friend.

Here is The Hubs, and JT (Justin) working on cleaning out the coop.

Here is my mother-in-law Glenn Reynolds, and my father-in-law Al Reynolds watching all the action around the coop.

Here’s my self portrait. I love my boots, y’all! I was taking a break. I had raked up about six piles of feathers and rocks and other debris.

Here is Tori, my step daughter on the right, with her friend Keena, on the left. Sweet girls, they seem to really get along great. We really enjoyed having them visit.

Knucklehead will be here all next week for his spring break and so we are looking forward to some good times.

I have some very exciting genealogy things coming up soon, and I can’t say anything at all about them before they happen, but please stay tuned. April will prove to be very interesting for my family. I don’t want to spoil anything but look for some updates on that coming up towards the end of April.

Around the compound, I’m sad to say that my chickens and guineas and turkey’s have been depleted down to 4 chickens, 2 guineas and my favorite of all Tom the Turkey.

What happened you say? Well it starts like this….

One day, I spent the whole day gone with my parents and son, out running around doing errands. I knew my chickens and other birds had been disappearing one by one and I could not for the life of me figure out how. But, it seemed to be happening in the middle of the day. So, I put my Dad’s game camera up by the coop and thank God I did. When we came home that night, this is what I came home to.

Tom is all walking around wondering what in the h. e. double hockey sticks has happened here? So, I’m like freaking out and wondering what happened. I grab the game camera and 147 pictures later, these few can tell the story.

Life is good, the guineas are checking out the camera wondering what is happening, the coop is covered because a snow storm is moving in the next day and everything is grand.

Dottie is out checking for bugs around the camera, and you can see all my other little chickens milling around in the coop behind her.

Something is up, because Tom is hauling it out of there.

Danger! Danger!! Is that a dog in the coop??

Sure is and he brought his brother, they are trying to figure out how long it will take them to get into the coop.

Eating chickens and destroying a coop is hard work, so they needed a break.

Let’s get this done, Bro!

Maybe I will rest again!

I had to run to the store and buy all the supplies to fix the coop, and had to do it in the freezing cold and snow, and would never have gotten it done if Justin hadn’t been here to help. It was redonk! We had to repair wire and all.

Turns out, they were my neighbors dogs. He couldn’t deny the damage they did, as I showed him all 147 pictures. He kindly paid me for the materials I had to buy and since then he has given away both of the dogs.

That still doesn’t replace, Dottie, Goldie, Blackie, Rooster Cogburn, Black Mama, or Amanda . RIP my little chickens. The two guineas that went missing, well, they didn’t have names but I’m sure we will miss them when the ticks start coming out this year.

Anyway, I have just been enjoying my family for the past month or so, and it won’t be long until I am back in the swing of genealogy things, and making more posts, so please bear with me.

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My name is Susie.

I'm a city slicking country girl raising boys and chickens. I confuse the dead and irritate the living by digging up our families past and telling their stories.